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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple announces Self Service Repair, a program starting next year that will publish repair manuals, let customers buy parts and tools, and more — The tech giant says it will publish repair manuals and allow everyday customers to buy the same parts and tools certified technicians and repair shops use.
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| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Over 100 Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout on Tuesday, the second in four months, demanding CEO Bobby Kotick step down, after a WSJ report — This story has been updated from a previous version. — IRVINE, Calif. — Employees at beleaguered video game company Activision Blizzard walked …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Activision CEO failed to inform the board about allegations an employee had been raped by her supervisor in 2016 and 2017, even after a settlement — Top executive didn't inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
LA's iconic Staples Center to be renamed as Crypto.com Arena, sources say in a deal worth $700M+ for 20 years — Staples Center is getting a new name for Christmas: Crypto.com Arena. — The downtown Los Angeles venue — home of the Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Sparks …
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Tweets: @fos, @jasonyanowitz, @ajb_powell, @rmac18, @matthewstoller, @tomgara, @staplescenter, @tomgara, @markg_medina, @kevinroose, @donie, @brettkollmann, @trungtphan, @carpethefish, @brianroemmele, @billshaikin, @thestalwart, @josephmdurso, @molly_knight, @germanotes, @someday_deane, @martinsfp, @silvermanjacob, @thestalwart, @latimes, @germanotes, and @lat_iliana
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon tells UK customers it won't accept Visa credit cards issued in the UK from January 19, 2022, citing high transaction fees — - Customers told the change will come into effect in Jan. 2022 — Amazon cites high fees charged by Visa as reason for change
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix expands its Top 10 lists to display the most-viewed shows and movies, for English and non-English titles, ranked by aggregate viewing hours — Netflix says it's heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta details a haptic glove prototype that uses air pockets to simulate touching objects in VR and has been in development for seven years — A new sci-fi interface for the metaverse — You cannot pet a dog in Meta's new, high-tech virtual reality gloves. But researchers are getting closer.
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
Miramax sues Quentin Tarantino over copyright infringement for selling NFTs based on Pulp Fiction screenplay excerpts; Miramax says it owns screenplay rights — Miramax filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Quentin Tarantino of copyright infringement by selling NFTs based on the screenplay for “Pulp Fiction.”
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The Block, The Hollywood Reporter, Quartz, TechSpot, NewsBTC, Newser, Wall Street Journal, Coinspeaker, New York Post, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Deadline, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @counternotions, @mmasnick, @emilybest, @hradzka, and @gmoneynft
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 15.2 beta code shows a private “SportsKit” framework, currently integrated with the Apple TV app, Siri, and home screen widgets — It's no secret at this point that Apple is becoming more interested in the sports segment, as the company has been investing and hiring related professionals …
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iMore, MacDailyNews, and iThinkDifferent
| Axios: |
Analysis: the top five most-followed accounts on TikTok do not rank in the top 50 on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram — The creator economy has produced thousands of social media entrepreneurs who have built mega-audiences in the millions — larger than many media companies.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, recently blacklisted by the US, waged “watering hole” attacks on UK and Middle East websites critical of Saudi Arabia and others — Cybersecurity researchers tracked a hacking campaign spanning more than a year that hit around 20 websites.
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WeLiveSecurity, Forbes, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @esetresearch, @iblametom, @rondeibert, and @iblametom
| Bloomberg: |
Source: BlockFi faces SEC scrutiny for offering high interest rates for lending out crypto; Texas, New Jersey, and others are already investigating BlockFi — - U.S. regulator examining whether lending product is a security — Fast-growing firm already responding to state-level inquires
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| Tom Matsuda / The Block: |
ConsenSys, which develops and invests in projects built on the Ethereum blockchain, raises $200M at a $3.2B valuation from HSBC, Coinbase Ventures, and others — Quick Take — ConsenSys, a company that develops and invests in the ethereum blockchain, has raised $200 million … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Cash flow management service Settle raises a $60M Series B led by Ribbit Capital, bringing its total funding to $100M — Cashflow management startup Settle announced its second round of funding in five months, this time $60 million in Series B financing as it aims to carve out a niche … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Netlify, which offers a cloud-based service for automating web development projects, raises a $105M Series D at a $2B valuation, bringing funding to $200M+ — Sign up here. — Netlify, a platform as a service that builds, deploys, and hosts static websites and apps …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Laminar, which helps companies manage public cloud data security, emerges from stealth with $37M across seed and Series A — The cloud may be the direction that much of enterprise IT is moving today, but it still remains a major source of security issues …
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant says it has “high confidence” that Belarus is partially responsible for Ghostwriter, a hack-and-leak operation in some EU states — Mandiant says the government is likely to blame for anti-NATO campaigns, and more. — The Belarusian government … | Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches a datacenter region in Sweden that runs solely on renewable energy, in partnership with state-owned utility Vattenfall — - Customers for the centers include Handelsbanken, PostNord — Facilities to use green energy supplied by utility Vattenfall
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Silicon Republic, Microsoft, Benzinga, and Technology Record
Tweets: @vattenfallgroup, @judsonalthoff, @mseurope, and @bradsmi
| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Republican FTC commissioners and some career officials feel excluded under the current leadership; Lina Khan rejected the claims in an agency-wide memo — Criticized by Republicans, Khan tells agency staffers she aims to build bridges going forward
Tweets: @wsj, @hotlinejosh, @brkend, @sidhubaba, and @karlbode
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Brave now has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet, sidestepping the need for extension-based wallets like MetaMask — Why use an extension when it's a built-in tool? — Brave has announced that its web browser now includes a native cryptocurrency wallet, replacing the previous one that was based on the MetaMask wallet extension.
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Brave Browser. More:
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Tweets: @brianbondy, @dwightkurt_, and @brave
| Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Pakistan-based startups have raised ~$300M in 2021, more than the previous six years combined, with investors from the US, UAE, and Singapore — Global investors are pouring money into Pakistan's budding tech sector. Funding this year has outstripped the last six combined.
Tweets: @faseehmangi, @xparacha, and @hassshad
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Hightouch, which offers tools to sync data from disparate sources, raises a $40M Series B led by Iconiq Growth at a $450M post-money valuation — Data integration platform Hightouch has raised $40 million in a series B round of funding led by Iconiq Growth, a venture capital firm …
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FinSMEs, Forbes, and TechCrunch
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
QuEra Computing, which is building a commercially accessible cloud-based quantum device, emerges from stealth with $17M from Rakuten and others — QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computer developer, is coming out of stealth mode today with $17 million in funding from Rakuten, Day One Ventures and Frontiers Capital.
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MIT Technology Review, Livemint, The Boston Globe, and Fast Company
| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Relay, which offers up to five email aliases, out of beta, and introduces a $0.99/month premium tier for unlimited aliases — You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you — Mozilla hopes to ramp up the monetisation machine with a paid premium version … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Tel Aviv-based Overwolf, a modding service for game developers, raises a $75M Series D led by a16z, following a $52.5M raise in March, and says it has 20M MAUs — Overwolf has raised $75 million in funding to jumpstart community-created mod experiences for games.
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Globes Online, Overwolf Blog, and Pocket Gamer.biz
| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
The FDA authorizes AppliedVR's EaseVRx as a prescription VR treatment for chronic lower back pain in adults — It joins a handful of other digital therapeutics — The Food and Drug Administration authorized a virtual reality system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain, the agency announced today.Sponsor Posts
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